Toward further development of photovoltaics to overcome current problems occuured bynuclear power plants in Japan

Abstract

By earthquake and tsunami occurred on March 11th 2011, Fukushima nuclear power plant No.1 has generated severe accidents to emit high level radiations and to contaminate foods, water and others with radio isotopes. Such an accidents has given very important messages such as unclearness for safety and cost effectiveness of nuclear energy and important of clean renewable energies including photovoltaics instead of nuclear energy to us. This report presents outline of accidents by the Fukushima nuclear power plant and difficulty of further installation of new nuclear power plants in Japan. An idea such as the “Fukushima Solar Village” plan has been proposed to attain employment security, to maintain power supply from those areas to metropolitan cities and to overcome several problems occurred by nuclear power plant accident. Accelerating plan such as further installation of photovoltaic power generation systems in Japan has also been proposed in order to overcome several problems occurred by Fukushima nuclear power plant accident.